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Meaning of -meister | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR B2
/ˈmaɪstə/

Definitions

  1. An expert on the specified subject.
    morpheme
  2. A person in charge of a specified thing.
    morpheme
  3. Attached to a person's name in humorous (or ironic) approbation.
    morpheme

Examples

“The festival is something of a muso's paradise, with the Bobmeister General (you may know him as Geldof), former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman with his band The Rhythm Kings, Bernard Butler and Bert Jansch and Dublin-based electronic knob-twiddler Autamata all turning out. — "Galway Gets Festive", The Irish Times, July 9, 2004 http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/galway-gets-festive-1.1148459”
“But 2011 hasn’t started well for the Govemeister. [Reference to Michael Gove, then UK Secretary of State for Education] — engagedlearning.co.uk, January 15, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20150915001618/http://engagedlearning.co.uk/?p=165”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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